Mohun Bagan beat Peerless 2 – 1 in a nail biting encounter

November 22, 2010

In a stunning encounter, Muritala scored twice in injury time to register a 2 -1 victory for the Mariners against Peerless. It’s really going to be a tough ask to write a match report for anyone who has just watched today’s encounter at the Mohun Bagan Ground. Ever after the long whistle blown by the referee, spectators remained on their toes as they couldn’t believe what they had witnessed in the last 10 minutes of the match. The great game of football proves once again – ‘Nothing is impossible provided you fight for it’.

After a galore of miss-passes and wastage of dozens of set pieces, pretty unimpressive Mariners suddenly woke up in the dying minutes and in the process ace striker Muritala scored 2 stunning goals to earn 3 points and keep the team in the championship race. Coach Stanley continued to experiment with the first XI as he rested Snehasis, Kaushik, Surabuddin and Dhanarajan and brought in Biswajit, Gouranga, David and Chiddi. The other reason is for experiementation is that all the rested players were shown yellow card in the earlier macthes. Mariners were quickly into their stride and earned a few corners within first 10 minutes. They came close to open the score card in the 11th minute when the last defender of Peerless narrowly prevented the ball from crossing the goal line. Mohun Bagan tried to establish a grip on the game but failed to score even with taking advantage of having an extra midfield player of the stature of Barreto.But Peerless stunned Mohun Bagan by taking their lead via Binod Bauri when they converted a corner in the injury time of the first half. (0-1) The Mariners went to lemon break trailing by a goal.Mohun Bagan tried to retaliate and continued to dominate the game right from the beginning of the second half. It was a do-or-die situation for Stanley as he opted for 2 back to back substitutions in the 50th minute (Surabuddin and Snehasis replacing David and Gouranga respectively) and the last one in the 64th minute (Manish in place of Jayanta) and went into an all out attacking mode. The game turned out to be a battle of resilience of the Peerless goalkeeper and the desperate Mohun Bagan attacking force. Mohun Bagan failed to capitalize as many as 10 corners and this might be a serious concern for coach Stanley in view of forthcoming I-League.Frustration was mounting both inside the ground as well as at the stands. It was almost looking like a hopeless situation when the match went into the injury time of 6 additional minutes. And suddenly it was a magical display of Muritala as he equalized from Chiddi’s centre (1-1).A draw couldn’t be a consolation for the Mariners and the ace striker knew it well. In the last minute of injury time, Mohun Bagan earned a corner and that was the last opportunity. Snehasis floated the ball in from the corner, Muritala connected the ball with his head and stunned the crowd!! (2-1). 3 points were finally earned for the Mariners, which would now keep them very much in the championship race.

MOHUN BAGAN BEAT PEERLESS 2-0 IN PRACTICE MATCH

February 28, 2009

Mohun Bagan beat Peerless 2-0 in a practice match held in Mohun Bagan ground today. Barreto and Lalampuia scored the two goals for Mohun Bagan.

Mohun Bagan defeated Peerless Sc by 2-0 in a practice match at the club ground today. Puiya and Barreto were the scorers. The team composition was 4-4-2 in the first half. Sangram played under the bar with usual back line of Deepak, Manju, Odafe and Habibur. Lalkamal was playing in left half and Mama in right with Marcos and Lalramluaha in Central midfield. Barreto and Puiya played in the upfront. Apart from scoring two goals Mohun Bagan also created number of chances in the first half and played a very positive game.

In the second half almost all the players of reserve bench from Branco Crodozo to Kartick Kisku got the chance to be in the action. Kartick Kisku and Lalramluaha were combining well through out the second half. Mohun Bagan got one spot kick in the dying moments of the second half as Kartick Kisku was brought down inside the box after a brilliant one- two with Lalramluaha. However Branco Cardozo missed the spot kick sending the grounder way outside goalkeeper’s right post. Ishfaq Ahmed was also effective in the second half with his speedy runs down the flank.